Notes on Contributors
Olivia Adankpo-Labadie
PhD (2017, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University), is Assistant Professor at Grenoble Alpes University. She researches monasticism in medieval Ethiopia as well as cultural, religious and political contacts between the Horn of Africa and the Mediterranean in the early modern period.
Robert John Clines
is Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University and Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He publishes on the early modern Mediterranean, including A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Matthew Coneys Wainwright
is Research Associate in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. He has published on late medieval and early modern pilgrimage culture and the history of the book between manuscript and print.
Serena Di Nepi
PhD (2007, Sapienza University Rome), is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at that university. She has published extensively on Jews and other religious minorities in Early Modern Italy, including the English edition of Surviving the Ghetto (Brill: forthcoming 2021).
Irene Fosi
is Professor of Modern History at the University of Chieti-Pescara. She studies justice and religious conversion in Baroque Italy. Her books include Papal Justice: Subjects and Courts in the Papal States (1500–1750) (Washington, D.C.: 2011); and Inquisition, Conversion, and Foreigners in Baroque Rome (Leiden: 2020).
Mayu Fujikawa
PhD, is a Graduate School Senior Assistant Professor at Meiji University in Tokyo. She is currently writing a monograph that analyszes the visual representations of the Japanese embassies to Europe.
Sam Kennerley
PhD (2018, University of Cambridge), is a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has published work on patristic scholarship, historical criticism, and the interaction between different churches during and after the Council of Trent.
Emily Michelson
is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of St Andrews. Her books include The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy (Harvard: 2013). She researches and publishes on interreligious interactions in early modern Italy, including articles and a forthcoming monograph on forced sermons to Jews in Rome.
James Nelson Novoa
is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottowa. He is the author of Being the Nação in the Eternal City: Portuguese New Christian Lives in Sixteenth-Century Rome (Peterborough: 2014) and has published widely on early modern Italo-Iberian cultural relations.
Cesare Santus
is fnrs Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He has published on Eastern Christianity and Catholic missions in the Ottoman Empire (Trasgressioni necessarie, Rome: 2019) and on the Muslim presence in early modern Italy (Il “turco” a Livorno, Milan: 2019).
Piet van Boxel
is Emeritus Curator of Hebrew at the Bodleian Library and member of the Oriental Faculty of Oxford University. He recently published Jewish Books in Christian Hands (Vatican City: 2016) and is co-editing The Mishnaic Moment (forthcoming).
Justine A. Walden
(PhD, Yale University, 2016), Solmsen Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studies subalternity and social inequality in early modern Europe. Her monograph The Devil in the Renaissance is forthcoming from Brepols. Her next project examines precolonial slavery in the South Atlantic.